[ILUG] bootable vfat from linux ?

Paul Reilly paulr at maths.tcd.ie
Thu Feb 5 17:15:09 GMT 2004


Cheers Niall,
That did the trick :)
No messing about with MBR's or anything needed.
Must have been the tar failing to keep all the vfat file attributes
like you say.

> Yes - just make sure that the partitions are the same size. But your
> means of transferring the disk layout using sfdisk won't work with
> different disk geometries anyway.
>
True - these systems were the same geometry so it was OK.
I wonder how I can get around systems with different geometry?
Can fdisk do it I wonder...

Paul



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